The Bard Graduate Center proudly announces
a new digital initiative
In collaboration with the Center for Digital Storytelling
at Berkeley, California, and the Digital Story
Group of New York, we have begun to offer classes
in which the basics of digital storytelling literacy are
taught, and then used to bring the material world to life.
The first such course was "Creating a Virtual Exhibition/
Digital Story: Walter Benjamin’s New York,"
offered in Spring 2002. A second, experimental, faculty/
staff workshop in July 2002 produced multi-media essays
on our library and showcased some of the courses offered
this year at the BGC (movies coming soon!)
Benjamin's unfinished "Arcades Project" is his
greatest work. We have used it as the "script"
for a series of multi-media essays that reflect on his
study of modern material culture. But where his word commented
on nineteenth-century Paris, our images are of twentieth-century
New York. Benjamin, thus transformed, becomes a commentator
on 20th century New York, while The City, in turn, helps
us understand better Benjamin's interpretation of Paris
in an earlier age of "high capitalism" (1840-1870).
(more)
In summer 2002 faculty were invited to produce multi-media
introductions to courses they were teaching in the upcoming
years. Library and information services staff put together
a reflection on the role of a library in a research institute.
(more)
Benjamin's unfinished "Arcades Project" is his
greatest work. We have used it as the "script"
for a series of multi-media essays that reflect on his
study of modern material culture. But where his word commented
on nineteenth-century Paris, our images are of twentieth-century
New York. Benjamin, thus transformed, becomes a commentator
on 20th century New York, while The City, in turn, helps
us understand better Benjamin's interpretation of Paris
in an earlier age of "high capitalism" (1840-1870). 
In summer 2002 faculty were invited to produce multi-media
introductions to courses they were teaching in the upcoming
years. Library and information services staff put together
a reflection on the role of a library in a research institute.
(